Last year we started our Lego Christmas Village. We started it but did not finish it. So this year we decided to finish the village. Together as a family we worked on it.
Working from home has brought me the opportunity to increase my appreciation of my home and nature around. Every year a pair of robins tries to build a nest above my front door. Normally we keep cleaning it off and work hard to keep that nest from forming above the door, but this year I decided to let them construct their nursery. Everyone was excited when four little blue eggs were added to the nest and we all watched eagerly, waiting daily for the eggs to hatch. Then one day, we saw one of the robins bending down and sure enough, four little birds were in the nest. They were so small that their beaks did not even reach the top of the nest when they opened their mouth for their parents to feed them. Day by day they grew until we looked yesterday, and it almost looked like four grown robins in the nest. They started bantering for spots and occasionally moved (or were pushed) out on to the window ledge. It seemed like overnight the birds had grown from helpless to ready to leave. ...
Days 10, 11, 12 We woke up at 9am on Sunday and realized that we were supposed to be out of the cabin by 10am. Well that wasn’t going to happen, so we showered and began packing. By 10:30am the van was loaded and it was time to say goodbye to the family. Soon we would all head out to our various areas of the country. Michael, Amber, and RJ are stationed in Virginia. Alan, Colleen, and Tim live in Oregon. Andrea and James are in Washington. Steve and Jan live in California. Pat, Jim, and Danette are in Iowa and we live in Wisconsin. This leaves Charissa and Keith in Montana. Ryan plays in Bigfork. Our van forced us to stop for one last time in Bigfork. Dave found a geocache and placed our two new travel bugs in it. His bug wants to see all 50 states and mine wants to visit all of the National Parks. Hopefully they will have successful journeys and not be stolen from there cache. We co...
We started planning for Josh's 16th birthday, months in advance. Josh did not want a big party or time with his friends, he asked for a family weekend away. So we started to discuss heading to Camp Luther and hanging out, but then we realized the lake might still be frozen. So finally we decided to head to Chicago for the weekend. But at last, we forgot about baseball and the baseball schedule came out. It had Josh playing a doubleheader in Madison. But we decided that that would still work until he was changed to a different JV team and now his game was in Green Bay. So reservations were changed and hotels were booked for Milwaukee. Who would have guessed that the week before April 21st we would get a blizzard and there would still be snow on the ground? So with baseball canceled, we decided to leave a little earlier for the birthday trip. We started the day with a birthday breakfast for Josh. He wanted pancakes and then we ...
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